“Hey Mike - you’ve got some beautiful kids; I see them going to Elementary School every morning and sports games after school. I’m sure you love them all very much. You’d probably do anything to protect them, right?
Hey Mike - I’d hate for one day a couple of them never made it home from soccer practice. I know it’d be real devistating to you and the Mrs.
Now, about that birth certificate...”
Having experienced that myself when I tried to expose local corruption it goes almost exactly like that